e-wallet

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Etymology

From e- (“electronic”) +‎ wallet.

Noun

e-wallet (plural e-wallets)

  1. (finance) An electronic data store for a customer's e-money, credit card details, etc.
    Synonym: digital wallet
    • 2002, Michael Chesher, Rukesh Kaura, Peter Linton, chapter 3, in Electronic Business & Commerce, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 53:
      The concept of virtual cash, and its associated counterpart, the e-Wallet or Digital Wallet became popular vocabulary in the 1990s when a number of initiatives were launched. The digital wallet, either stored on a physical medium such as a smart card of some kind […] or sitting on a server somewhere in cyberspace, began taking form.

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